Novices and programming : Merely a difficult subject ( why ? ) or a means to mastering metacognitive skills ? A review of Soloway & Spohrer ’ s ,

The Buggy Path t o The Development of Programming Expertise Roy D . Pea Bank Street College

In the U.S. over a million precollege students take computer programming courses each year. and more than 50,000 teachers are involved with programming instruction. Unlike mathematics education , in which decades of research have led to a deepening understanding of the development of early number acquisition. algebraic cognition. and geometric problem-solving, cognitive research on the developm...

The Buggy Path to The Development of Programming Expertise

Computer-based Metacognitive Training: Improving the Diagnostic Expertise of Novice Graduates

The diagnosis problem-solving task can be complex in many professions for which it is central, for example medical diagnosis, farm-management consultancy, etc. This is because often the expert must solve problems and make decisions in complex situations and while under time pressures. The complex nature of the problem situations and the novices’ lack of advanced metacognitive skills also make i...

O4: Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy Implications for Treatment of PTSD

Cognitive rehabilitation therapy is an effective therapeutic program to restore functioning and compensate cognitive deficits of numbers of involved traumatic brain injury individuals as well as many psychiatric patients, of them PTSD in particular. Specific skills and metacognitive strategies help patients to create self-awareness and learn how to monitor these skills. Metacognitive training i...

Applied Linguistic Approach to Language Learning Strategies (A Critical Review)

From applied linguistic point of view, the fundamental question facing the language teachers, methodologists and course designers is which procedure is more effective in FL/SL: learning to use or using to learn? Definitely, in order to be a competent language user, knowledge of language system is necessary, but it is not sufficient to be a successful language user. That is why there was a gradu...